6. Esau found out that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram. Isaac wanted him to get a wife from there. Esau heard that when Isaac blessed Jacob, he commanded him, "Don't get married to a woman from Canaan."
7. Esau also learned that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8. Then Esau realized how much his father Isaac disliked the women of Canaan.
9. So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael. Esau added her to the wives he already had.
10. Jacob left Beersheba and started out for Haran.
11. He reached a certain place and stopped for the night. The sun had already set. He took one of the stones there and placed it under his head. Then he lay down to sleep.
12. In a dream he saw a stairway standing on the earth. Its top reached to heaven. The angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
13. The Lord stood above the stairway. He said, "I am the Lord. I am the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your children after you the land on which you are lying.
14. They will be like the dust of the earth that can't be counted. They will spread out to the west and to the east. They will spread out to the north and to the south. All nations on earth will be blessed because of you and your children after you.
15. "I am with you. I will watch over you everywhere you go. And I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16. Jacob woke up from his sleep. Then he thought, "The Lord is certainly in this place. And I didn't even know it."